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Africa-Press – Namibia. <\/strong><\/span>LANDLESS People’s Movement (LPM) parliamentarian Edson Isaack says the party will challenge the legality of Germany’s N$18 billion genocide deal offer on both local and international platforms should Swapo manage to \u201cbulldoze\u201d it through parliament.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will not sit back and allow Swapo to proceed with their plan without an effective legal recourse. Even after they have endorsed such an ambiguous deal, we will challenge it both locally and internationally,\u201d Isaack said at Keetmanshoop on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The party urged communities in the Hardap and \/\/Kharas regions to reject the genocide deal negotiated between the Namibian and German governments to address the 1904 to 1908 Ovaherero\/Ovambanderu and Nama genocide.<\/p>\n

LPM leader Bernadus Swartbooi said the joint genocide declaration contains no single aspect of official recognition of a genocide, a genuine and legally binding genocide apology to the affected communities, or reparation framework.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Swapo government has failed to follow the parliament-set rules of engagement of 2006. There is no way the ancestors of affected communities can be honoured in the absence of the three fundamentals being part of any genocide restitution now or in future,\u201d Swartbooi said.<\/p>\n

A member of the community, Rashid Rooinasie, said members of parliament should serve the nation \u2013 irrespective of their political affiliation \u2013 without fear, favour and prejudice.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease stop misleading the nation to protect your positions. I would rather lose my privileges for the sake of my offspring to live in a dignified manner in the distant future,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Isaack said the parliament is expected to pass the draft of the joint declaration next week. He said this would amount to a second atrocity to befall the Ovaherero\/Ovambanderu and Nama communities.<\/p>\n

He said the only difference is that this time, it would happen under the political rule of the Swapo government, while the descendants of these communities have for long suffered psychological, social and economic pains and injustices.<\/p>\n

The LPM also accused Swapo members of parliament (MPs) Maureen Hinda, Lucia Witbooi, and Yvonne Dausab of being used by the party’s leadership to seek illegal buy-in from the affected communities before pushing the genocide deal through parliament.<\/p>\n

Witbooi denied this, saying they had provided information on the content of the joint declaration, and the process followed by the government. \u201cThey are the people saying ‘nothing for us without us’, but they are not providing their people with information, so we did,\u201d Witbooi said. The LPM has visited \u2260Gabes, Karasburg, Ariamsvlei, Aus, Berseba, Bethani, and Tses and has delivered the same message.<\/p>\n

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